Published on Jan 16, 2014
Courtney Love’s Libel Trial Inspires This Proposed Fix for Twitter Defamation
Earlier this week, in Los Angeles Superior Court, the trial between Courtney Love and her former lawyer began. The lawyer, Rhonda Holmes, is suing Love for libel for a June 2010 tweet in which the volatile rocker accused Holmes of being “bought off”—Holmes had refused to help Love bring a fraud case in her battle over control of the estate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain.
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Where Zittrain does think Twitter is different from the other media platforms people use to malign each other is that it has the potential to provide alternatives to litigation as a way of redressing reputational harms. One of the problems with Twitter, according to those whose reputations have been harmed there, is that retweeting allows falsehoods to get passed along and amplified. That means that even if the original tweet is taken down—as Love’s offending tweet about her lawyer has been—the statement lives on. To address this, Zittrain has proposed that Twitter allow people not only to retract or correct a tweet, but also to create a feature that relays that fix through all the people who retweeted it. ”It seems to be an untaken opportunity to be able to spread correction or refinement so easily,” he says.
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